29 Quotes by David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

If it’s not true, don’t say it; if it’s not right, don’t do it.

There is no education system in the world – none at all – that’s better than its average teacher.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse – and have it go unchallenged.

I’m not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

There’s always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the ‘best’ courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Most parliamentarians don’t have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us – they are not ‘a special case,’ and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for ‘exceptionalism’ – and with it the right to ’self-regulation.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural ‘byproduct’ of unregulated market forces.